Article: Bucking the Gypsy stereotype. (director Tony Gatlif's movie 'Gadjo Dilo')

Roma - or Gypsies - remain one of the most persecuted ethnic groups in the world, despite officially sanctioned renaissances of Gypsy culture like that endorsed by the Soviet government in the '20s. They have been the victims of both enslavement - for four hundred years in Wallachia and Moldavia (now part of contemporary Romania) - and genocide. Following the Gypsy holocaust inflicted by the Nazis, some Eastern Bloc countries attempted to assimilate Roma by improving standards of housing and education, especially once the harsh antiethnic policies promoted by Stalinism had abated. Progress was made during the '60s, but the emergence of rabid nationalism following the ...

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